Robert J. Jackson, Jr.

New York University School of Law

Nathalie P. Urry Professor of Law; Director, Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business; Co-Director, Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance

40 Washington Square South

New York, NY 10012-1099

United States

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1.

Trading on Terror?

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2023
Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Joshua Mitts
New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School
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Law, finance, trading, terrorism, securities, financing

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Shining Light on Corporate Political Spending

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 101, April 2013, pp. 923-967, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 728, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 431
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2014
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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Political spending, SEC, disclosure, transparency

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The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure

Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 40-60, Spring 2012, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 702, Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 405
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2015
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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The 8-K Trading Gap

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 524
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2016
Alma Cohen, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Joshua Mitts
Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School
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Insider Trading, Securities Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance

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Corporate Political Speech: Who Decides?

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 124, pp. 83-117, 2010., Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 676
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2010
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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Public Corporation, Political Contributions, Campaign Finance, Citizens United

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Executive Pensions

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Executive Pensions

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 823-855, 2005, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 507
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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Executive compensation, executive retirement benefits, executive pensions, stealth compensation, camouflage, pay for performance

Executive Pensions

NBER Working Paper No. w11907
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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Toward a Constitutional Review of the Poison Pill

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 6, pp. 1549-1594, October 2014, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 772, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-386
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2014
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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Corporate governance, Mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, tender offers, antitakeover defenses, poison pill, Williams Act, preemption, state antitakeover statutes

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Pre-Disclosure Accumulations by Activist Investors: Evidence and Policy

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-34, Fall 2013, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-33
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2015
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Wei Jiang
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, New York University School of Law and Emory University Goizueta Business School
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Corporate governance, disclosure, Williams Act, takeovers, proxy fights, takeover defenses, poison pills, control contests, shareholder activism, activist investors, hedge funds, blockholders

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How Does Legal Enforceability Affect Consumer Lending? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

The Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 May 2016 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Colleen Honigsberg, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Richard Squire
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and Fordham University School of Law
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usury law, strategic default, consumer lending, marketplace lending, Madden v. Midland

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Trading Against the Random Expiration of Private Information: A Natural Experiment

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2019
Mohammadreza Bolandnazar, Robert J. Jackson Jr., Wei Jiang and Joshua Mitts
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, New York University School of Law, Emory University Goizueta Business School and Columbia Law School
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Private information; information dissemination; informed trading

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Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 22-16, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2023
Robert J. Jackson Jr., Bradford (Lynch) Levy and Daniel J. Taylor
New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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insider trading, Form 144, extradition, enforcement, public scrutiny, disclosure

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How the SEC Helps Speedy Traders

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 501
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 08 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2014
Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Joshua Mitts
New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School
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securities law, high-frequency trading, information dissemination

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The Untenable Case for Keeping Investors in the Dark

Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 10, pp. 1-48, 2020, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 1025
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Robert J. Jackson Jr., James David Nelson and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, University of Houston Law Center and Harvard Law School
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political spending, SEC, disclosure, transparency

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Activist Directors and Agency Costs: What Happens When an Activist Director Goes on the Board?

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-15
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2018
John C. Coffee, Robert J. Jackson Jr., Joshua Mitts and Robert E. Bishop
Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, Columbia Law School and Duke Law School
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Activism, Agency Costs, Bid/Ask Spread, Corporate Governance, Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Activism, Information Leakage, Informed Trading, Insider Trading, Options Trading, Principal Costs, Private Benefits, Private Settlements, Proxy Contests

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Does Revlon Matter? An Empirical and Theoretical Study

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 466/2019
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2021
Matthew D. Cain, Sean J. Griffith, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Steven Davidoff Solomon
Berkeley Center for Law and Business, Fordham University School of Law, New York University School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Corporate Law, M&A, enhanced scrutiny, Revlon duties, takeovers, merger litigation, Corwin, Fiduciary Duties, Delaware, empirical, machine learning, negotiation process, deal premium

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of 19 Corporate Law Professors, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2015
John C. Coates IV, Lucian A. Bebchuk, Bernard S. Black, John C. Coffee, James D. Cox, Ronald J. Gilson, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Henry Hansmann, Robert J. Jackson Jr., Marcel Kahan, Vikramaditya S. Khanna, Michael Klausner, Reinier Kraakman, Donald C. Langevoort, Brian JM Quinn, Edward B. Rock, Mark J. Roe and Helen S. Scott
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Columbia Law School, Duke University School of Law, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, Widener University Delaware Law School, Yale University - Law School, New York University School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, BC Law School, New York University School of Law, Harvard Law School and New York University (NYU)
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corporate politics, union politics, First Amendment, shareholder rights, corporate speech

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Is EU Merger Control Used for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis

Journal for Empirical Legal Studies 14:4, December 2017, Forthcoming, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 571
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 19 Jul 2017
Anu Bradford, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Jonathon Zytnick
Columbia University - Law School, New York University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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European Commission, EU Merger Control, EU, protectionism, antitrust, antitrust protectionism

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Regulatory Arbitrage and the Persistence of Financial Misconduct

Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 21-02, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 571
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2022
Colleen Honigsberg, Edwin Hu and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Stanford Law School, University of Virginia - School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 547 (99,291)
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broker, advisor, adviser, insurance, wandering, regulation, misconduct, FINRA, SEC, CFTC, NAIC, consumer finance

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The Rise of Corporate Governance

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2017
Alon Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Data Lab, Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law
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The Hidden Nature of Executive Retirement Pay

Virginia Law Review No. 479 (2014), Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 475 , Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-27
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 20 May 2016
Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Colleen Honigsberg
New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School
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Executive compensation, executive retirement benefits, executive pensions, pay for performance, inside debt

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A New Method of Random Sampling to Reduce the Cost of Regulatory Monitoring

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 562
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Nov 2006
Robert J. Jackson Jr. and David Rosenberg
New York University School of Law and Harvard Law School
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Improving Employment Outcomes Through the Massachusetts Parole Board's Regional Reentry Center Initiative: Policy Analysis and Recommendations

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Dec 2006
Robert J. Jackson Jr.
New York University School of Law
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Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable - Policy Brief

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance 2022
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Aug 2022
Robert J. Jackson Jr., Bradford (Lynch) Levy and Daniel J. Taylor
New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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